Brick-faced metallic trim



May 8, 1923- 1,454,294

M. LIPTAK BRICK FACED METALLIC TRIM Filed May 11, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May 8, 1923..

fiTATE-S MICHAEL LIPTAK, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BRICK-FACED METALLIC TRIM.

Application filed May 11,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MICHAEL L r'rAK, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Faced Metallic Trim; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention provides an im )roved brick trim especially adapted to trim the wall openings, such as window and door openings, of buildings; and, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In accordance with my invention, brlcks or other masonry facing are, by the use of cement or mortar or other suitable means, rigidly secured to metallic back plates or strips preferably of sheet metal. Thus, masonry-faced metal trimming str1ps or plates are formed in advance of the application thereof to the building and these may be rapidly made, at comparatively low cost, in a factory and thereafter shipped to the place of erection or they might be made on the ground adjacent to the building. In either event, the operation has this important advantage that the facing bricks, or other masonry-facing, may be applied to the metallic plates while the latter are in horizontal position, which makes the operation much more easy to perform than when the assembling must be made against a vertical face. It also follows that such work can be rapidly done by unskilled labor or labor easily trained to the work.

In the drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views,

Fig. 1 is an elevation showing a portion of a building, the first floor of which may be assumed to be for stores, and the second floor of which may be assumed to be for flats or offices, but. of course, the building mi ht be of any other type;

ig. 2 shows a portion of a wlndow trim desi ed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an elevation showing a portion of the cornice designed in accordance with my invention;

1921. Serial No. 468,693.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is an elevation showing a portion of the belt illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 77 of .Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is an elevation showing an ornament or panel illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 9 is a vertical section taken on the line 99 of Fig. 8; and

Fig. 10 is a horizontal section taken on the line 10-10 of Fig. 8.

The window trim is indicated as an entirety by the character A, the cornice by the character B, the belt by the character C, and the ornamental panels by the character D.

The window trim A is. made up of two sheet metal side strips 11, a top sheet metal strip 12 and a bottom sheet metal strip 13, which strips are faced, respectively, with bricks 11 12 and 13 The said sheet metal strips 11, 12 and 13 are preferably formed with dove-tailed corrugations, so that the cement or mortar 1 that connects the bricks to the metal plates, has positive interlocking engagement with the latter. The metal plates project beyond the brick facings, so that they may be readily secured in proper position by nails or the like driven therethrough and into the woodwork of the wall before the stucco or plaster has been applied to the building.

The cornice B comprises sheet metal back plates or strips 14, preferably formed with dove-tailed corrugations to which the facing bricks 14 are secured by cement if. The projecting edges of the metal strips 14, as before, may be nailed to the woodwork or sheathing 15, as best-shown in Fig. 5. The cornice may be capped, when desired, by concrete or other blocks 16. In forming a long cornice, the same would preferably be made in sections vof about five or six feet, and these complete sections applied and properly assembled on the wall. Of course, the cornice cappin or block 16 may be inde' pendently appliaf The belt C would be made much like the cornice, and it comprises a sheet metal plate or strip 17 formed with dove-tailed corrugations or the like, the facing bricks 17 being secured thereto by cement or mortar 7 Also, this belt would preferably be formed in sections of five or six feet in length, each with its own brick facing, and these sections applied to the wall, as already indicated.

The ornamental panel shown in detail in Figs. 8, 9 and 10 comprises a sheet metal back plate 18, to which facing bricks or the like 18 are secured by cement or mortar 3 said plates being corrugated to interlock with the cement or mortar. Here, as before, the edges of the plate 18 project so that thy may be nailed to the sheathing or woodwork of the wall in proper position before the cement or mortar has been applied to the exterior surface of the wall. Preferably, the projecting portions, as well as the covered portions of the plates 18, are corrugated so that the stucco of the wall will stick thereto and interlock therewith.

From the foregoing, it is evident not only that these metal faced trims or trimming plates or strips, with their brick or masonry faces, may be cheaply constructed at the factory or on the ground prior to their application to a building, but that they may be thereafter, quickly and at small cost, properly applied to the building and secured to the wooden sheathing thereof, and thereafter, the stucco or outer plaster of the wall may be applied and brought up against the Leeaaee brick facings, thereby imbedding portions of the metal back plates or sheets. This not only gives cheap construction, but exceedingly good construction, in which there is no danger of the brickfaces getting loose, and the building will have all of the appearance of a stuccoed brick or tile wall with exposed brick trims.

Experience has demonstrated the fact that one man can lay as much as fifteen hundred bricks on these metal backs or strips, working no harder than a mason laying five hundred bricks in an actual wall, both being substantially one days work for one man.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a metallic base plate formed with an irregular face, cement-interlocked to said base plate, and bricks held in bond by said cement and by the latter indirectly secured to said base plate.

2. The structure defined in claim 1 in which the trimming bricks are ordinary rectangular commercial bricks.

In testimony whereof ll afiix my signature.

MICHAEL LIPTAK. 

